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Driverless, Electric Shuttles Now Operating in Lyon, France
The City of Lyon in eastern France has brought a driverless shuttle service to its streets, according to an announcement made earlier this month. These battery-powered minibuses are integrated into the...
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Practice Doesn't Make Perfect
Practice matters, but in many fields it matters much less than you might think.Credit Illustration by Wren McDonaldZach Hambrick has always been fascinated by exceptional performance, or what he calls...
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Build a world-class sales team: The Muse (YC W12) is hiring a Sales Manager
As a Manager, Sales, reporting to the VP of Sales, you’ll be leading a full cycle inside sales team. This team will be working to bring the best brands in the world on to The Muse. You’ll have the...
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Justin Kan is good at Snapchat: Startups I didn't know about
I think every founder or potential founder should follow justinkan on Snapchat.IntroYou might have noticed that Justin Kan knows a thing or two about startups. He was an early batchmate in Y Combinator...
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Why I wrote a damning review of my own debut novel
I was an unconfident and late-arriving first novelist. Metroland was published when I was 34, and I’d been working on it for seven or eight years. I’d put it in a drawer for long periods, shown it to...
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“Why do you work in security instead of something more lasting?”
This post grew out of a friend on Facebook asking (I paraphrase) "why do you spend your time on security instead of using your brainpower for something more lasting ?". I tried to answer, and ended up...
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Neural-redis – Neural networks module for Redis
README.mdMachine learning is like highschool sex. Everyone says they do it, nobody really does, and no one knows what it actually is. -- @Mikettownsend.Neural Redis is a Redis loadable module that...
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Meerkat built a new app under a pseudonym, and almost 1M people are using it
The company that turned live-streaming into a sensation last year is ready to introduce its next act. Meerkat, which sparked new interest in mobile broadcasting before sputtering amid competition from...
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RIAA takes on stream-ripping in copyright lawsuit targeting YouTube-mp3
Screenshot of Ars testing the service with an Eminem track. We did not download the music.The Recording Industry Association of America, the British Recorded Music Industry, and other industry...
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A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning
A company called Bonsai joins a movement to democratize machine learning. Get ready to build your own neural net.If you are a strong-armed NFL quarterback who reads defenses like genre fiction, a movie...
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Campaign in Oakland pushing for greater control of police surveillance
Image copyrightCarlos Avila Gonzalez/SF Chronicle /PolarisMass surveillance of citizens without their knowledge is on the rise in America. This is the story of how one city fought back - and is...
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Make with Ada: Redux
written byShawn Nock on 2016-09-29The end of Make with Ada is upon us. I wanted to take a moment to summarize my experience.I had no previous experience with Ada. I'd heard whispers of Ada in the...
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EU Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks Be Password Protected
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently announced its decision in Sony v McFadden with important consequences for open wireless in the European Union. The court held that providers of open wifi...
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How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Hard Drives
This is the third in a series of posts about how DreamHost builds its Cloud products. Written by Luke Odom straight from the data center operations. To begin picking what drives we wanted to use in...
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Arduino.cc and Arduino.org Becomes Arduino Holding
Arduino, the world’s leading open-source ecosystem for Educators, Makers and IoT developers of all ages, today announced that Arduino LLC (aka Arduino.cc) and Arduino srl (aka Arduino.org) have settled...
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Apple loses patent retrial to the litigious VirnetX, ordered to pay $300M
Here’s yet more evidence that the US patent system needs over-hauling.Back in February we reported that Apple had been ordered to pay $625 million to notorious litigator VirnetX after a U.S. court...
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A subpixel super-resolution neural net implementation in Tensorflow
README.mdLeft: input images / Right: output images with 4x super-resolution after 6 epochs:See more examples inside the images folder.In CVPR 2016 Shi et. al. from Twitter VX (previously Magic Pony)...
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Heartbreaking essay by Robin Williams' wife about what happened to him
I am writing to share a story with you, specifically for you. My hope is that it will help you understand your patients along with their spouses and caregivers a little more. And as for the research...
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